Overall ticket



May 20, 1941.

M. c. WILDER EI'AL OVERALL TICKET Filed Sept. 18, 1940 .INVENTORS NAQJQE/E C V/405R (4.4005 .3 BANS/7V.

ATTORNEY Patented May 20, 1941 OVERALL TICKET Marjorie C. Wilder, New York, and Claude B. Ramsay, Forest Hills, N. Y., assignors to J. C. Penney Company, Inc., a corporation of Delaware Application September 18, 1940, Serial No. 357,253

Claims.

This invention relates generally to tags, but more particularly to a tag adapted to be displayed on garments having patch pockets.

It is customary in displaying garments on the shelves or counters of stores to fold the garments and place them one on the other, forming piles. It has been the usual practice, when removable tags are afilxed to the garment, to attach them by a string to an exposed button or through a button hole on the garment or attach doublepointed pin tags directly to the fabric. The use of string-attached tags involves a comparatively long operation in threading the tag through the loop of string and the tags hanging loosely from the garment are apt to be torn off during the selection and removal of a garment from the piles. Double pointed pin tags must necessarily be small to minimize the danger of injuring the fabric of the garment by their being caught on other garments. Being small, pin tags are naturally unsuited to display more than a minimum of information. Resort has also been had to sewing tags to garments, such as overalls, but this practice is expensive and unsightly and it is diflicult to remove such tags.

It is therefore an object of this invention to provide a tag which can be securely and quickly attached to a garment having patch pockets without the auxiliary fastening means such as string or a pin and which will be held immovably by the structural elements of the pocket and the other fabric of the garment. Another object of the invention is to provide such an assembly of garment and tag as will permit of the display of extensive information, part of which may be concealed and brought into view by the pulling of a tab forming part of the tag. Other objects are cheapness of manufacture and facility of attachment to garments and at the same time security against loss. Still other objects and advantages will be apparent from the following description of one embodiment of the invention.

The tag is designed to be formed from blanks of a single sheet of flexible and relatively stiff material, such as cardboard, folded over upon itself to form an inner portion adapted to slide inside the pocket and an outer-portion or flap adapted to extend down over the pocket from its top edge. The inner portion of the tag, which engages the inner side edges of the pocket, is folded back upon itself on such a line that a corner or tab extends above the top edge of the pocket. On this tab may appear special information concerning the garment or other phrases such as, for example, an invitation to pull the tab to obtain further information which may be printed on the inner portion of the tag.

The material for the tag may be cut into blanks of rectangular, square, or irregular shape, such as a square with two opposite corners trimmed off. If rectangular, it may be folded along a substantially median line parallel to the short sides to form the flap and the inner section, and the inner section may be bent back upon itself on a line passing through or near one of its end corners. If square in shape it may be folded on a diagonal to form the flap and the inner section bent back upon itself on a line parallel to the diagonal fold. In the latter case, the tag may be inserted in the pocket with approximately one half of the original surface exposed outside the pocket or the tag may be reversed as to the garment and turned upsidedown, whereby the diagonal of the blank is well below the top edge of the pocket and the turned back part of what was the inner section is now the flap, which depends outside the pocket.

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of one embodiment of the invention, showing the tag disposed in a pocket;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the tag blank shown in Fig. l and before it has been folded;

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 1 except the view is in perspective and the position of the tag in the pocket is reversed;

Fig. 4 is similar to Fig. 2, but showing the tag blank as hexagonal;

Fig. 5 is similar to Fig. 1, showing a tag whose exposed surface is substantially a square; and

Fig. 6 is a plan View of the tag blank of Fig. 5, showing the lines of fold.

Referring particularly to Figs. 1 and 2, the tag blank is out from cardboard or other suitable material into the shapes shown by the lines I. Score 2 is cut in the material on substantially median transverse lines to facilitate folding the blank to form the tag. Score 3 is cut nearer to score 2 than to corner "3. When the blank is folded on line 2, the flap 4 and the inner section 5 of the tag are defined and when the inner section 5 is folded back on itself on score 3, the tag is ready to be inserted in the patch pocket 6 of garment I. By selecting the position of score line 3 relative to the line 2 and folding section 5 on line 3 a tab 8 is formed by a corner of section 5, which will extend up above the top edge 9 of the pocket 6. From an inspection of Figures 1 and 4, it is obvious that line 3 must be nearer to line 2 than to corner H] in order that a portion 7 of section will extend beyond the first line of fold 2 and hence above the top edge of the pocket 9 when the tag is placed in the pocket.

In the application of the tag shown in Fig. 2 to the pocket of a garment, the tag may be reversed as to the side next to the garment 1 and the tag rotated to an upside-down position and inserted in the pocket, as shown in Fig. 3. In this case the line of fold 2 is well below the top edge 9 of the pocket 6.

The tag blank may be hexagonal, as illustrated in Fig. 4, or may be rectangular as illustrated in Fig. 6. In the latter case, the line of fold 3 may be diagonal to line 2 and intersect one side edge of section 5 at a point closer to line 2 than to the upper end of that side. When section 5 is folded about line 3, a tab 8 will then be formed, extending above the line of fold 2 and above the top edge of the pocket, as illustrated in Fig. 5.

In all cases the blanks are of such dimension that the ends of fold 2 frictionally engage the inner side edges of pocket 6 and with the line of fold 2 against the top edge 9 of the pocket. The tag is thus held in position. With tags made from blanks illustrated in Figs. 4 and 6, the portions of the sides parallel to each other and in the inside of the pocket, are also in frictional engagement with the inner side edges of the pocket.

In the specification and the claims the term paper is defined as a flexible and relatively stiff paper, cardboard or other suitable material.

It is of course understood that the invention is not limited to the precise details shown and that changes may be made without departing from the scope of the invention as pointed out in the appended claims.

We claim:

1. In combination, a garment having a pocket, and a paper tag therefor folded upon a substantially median transverse line and forming two sections, one of the sections being again folded back upon a line intermediate its outer end and the first line of fold and at least in part nearer to the latter, the tag being applied to the pocket with one of the lines of fold on the top edge of the pocket and the other-line of fold in the pocket and providing one outer depending flap and one inner upstanding flap a portion of which is exposed above the pocket edge, the overall width of the tag at the first line of fold being substantially that of the inside of the pocket.

2. In combination, a garment having a pocket, and a paper tag therefor comprising a substantially square member having a diagonal substantially equal to the width of the pocket and folded upon a diagonal line forming two equal sections, one of the sections being folded back upon itself upon an intermediate line nearer the base than the apex of the section, thereby forming a large flap and a small oppositely extending fiap, the tag being applied to the pocket with the diagonal line of fold on the top edge of the pocket with the ends of the fold frictionally engaging the inner side edges of the pocket and the double folded section disposed in the inside of the pocket with the small flap upstanding and exposed and the other section constituting a depending outside flap.

3. In combination, a garment having a pocket, and a paper tag therefor comprising a substantially square member having a diagonal substantially equal to the width of the pocket and folded upon a diagonal line forming two equal sections, one of the sections being folded back upon itself upon an intermediate line nearer the base than the apex of the section, thereby forming a large flap and a small oppositely extending flap, the tag being applied to the pocket with the intermediate line of fold on the top edge of the pocket and the diagonal line of fold in the pocket with the ends thereof in frictional engagement with the inner side edges of the pocket and the large flap upstanding above the top edge of the pocket and the small flap depending over the pocket.

4. In combination, a garment having a pocket and. a paper tag therefor comprising a substantially rectangular member the shorter sides thereof being substantially equal to the width of the pocket, the tag being folded upon a transverse line parallel to the shorter sides and forming two sections, one of the sections being again folded back upon a line diagonally to the first line of fold and proximate thereto at one edge, the tag being applied to the pocket with the first line of fold on the top edge of the pocket and the double folded section disposed in the inside of the pocket and having an upstanding corner exposed and the other of said sections constituting a depending flap.

5. The combination of a garment having a pocket, and a tag therefor comprising a hexagonal paper member folded upon a median line to form two symmetrical pentagonal sections of a width substantially equal to the inside width ofthe pocket, one of the sections being again foldedupona line parallel to the first line and proximate thereto relative to the opposite corner, thereby forming a large flap and a small oppositely extending flap, the tag being applied 'to the pocket with the first line of fold on the top edge'of the pocket and the parallel sides frictionally engaging in the pocket, and with the large flap depending outside the pocket and the small flap exposed above the pocket.

MARJORIE C. WILDER. CLAUDE B. RAMSAY. 

